First edition, illustrated with 11 figures in-text. Vignette with the royal arms on the title page.Bound in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. as Exhibit in Havana morocco. exemplary restoration almost invisible in caps, bits and corners. Slight traces of wetness on the sidelines of the title page and on the first text page; trace of wetness at the right corner of the last layers. Nice copy. Chez Pierre Chevalier à Paris 1612 fort in-4 (16,5x23,5cm) (16) 1310pp. (18) relié

This is the => the first edition of the first comparative dictionary of Semitic languages, with definitions for Hebrew, Chaldean, Syriac, "Talmudo-rabbinic," and Arabic words; Lutheran orientalist Valentin Schindler (d. 1604) was a professor of Eastern languages at Wittenberg and Helmstadt, and => the first scholar to systematically compare the Hebrew and Aramaic languages in print. Widely used and influential upon later multilingual lexicons produced in tandem with the century's growing number of polyglot Bibles -- Castell's Heptaglotton, for example, owing much to it -- the Pentaglotton was of continuing significance. (In its commoner same-year Hanover edition, it was in 1767 the first book known to enter Brown University's library, a gift from the university's first president, James Manning.) The text here is divided into sections for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, followed by a guide to Hebrew abbreviations; an index of classical authors; and a comprehensive Latin index to the defined words, which are described in the text in Hebrew and Latin. The whole is printed in Hebrew, roman, and italic type, double-column, with intricate head- and tailpieces, ornaments, and initials in floriated, historiated, and factotum frames. Provenance: Early ownership inscription of Gervüin Pûtre ( or Pêctre?), front pastedown.

Printed by John Legatt for the University of Cambridge 1612 - A fairly early 1612 edition, which does not appear to be listed in the ESTC, and the various editions, published mainly by John Legatt, are confusing. It appears that a complete works was published at a later date. This copy appears to lack the title page, which probably read as shown above. After the title of the first work and 2 prelims, the pages run 1-779 plus two tables (xii and iv). Each work is introduced by a title page, most of them full titles with a woodcut Cambridge device and the date 1612 (those with half titles only are marked with an asterisk in the list below). Pages run continuously but the title pages and prelims are not numbered. In a mixed binding, back board of calf with blind tooling including motif with initials WK and date 1663, front board blind tooled sheep, and spine of plain sheep with raised bands, marbled endpapers suggesting rebind date of c1830. Bound in at the end, a parchment fillet with 16th century or earlier script which may have been used in the original binding. Condition sound, binding solid, slight loss of leather to front board, corners of back board eroded, spine with slight loss of leather surface, title page soiled and laid onto new paper, loss of bottom corners to first 6 or so pages with very slight loss of text (a few words or so), bottom corners of some pages fragile but complete, damp has affected bottom of a number of pages but never badly so. Owner's inscription dated 1739 on page 719. Folio, 22 x 33 cm. Altogether a good copy, interesting with parts of early b
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Finely engraved title & numerous fine engravings in the text (many full-page, one double-page). 5 p.l., 49 leaves, [16] leaves. Large folio, cont. vellum over boards (some dampstaining, mostly marginal, to about nine leaves, some light browning). London: Jan Norton, 1612 [with added engraved imprint beneath sill of the compartment: "Francfort ches la vefue de Hulsius"]. First edition, second issue (see below), of this rare perspective manual by the architect and engineer Salomon de Caus (d. 1626), a prominent theorist of perspective, who was renowned as an inventor of mechanical contrivances, utilitarian and entertaining. The book is of great interest for its material on the phenomenon of anamorphosis, a distorted projection or drawing of anything, which, when viewed from a particular point, or by reflection from a suitable mirror, appears regular and properly proportioned. The work presents a large number of perspective problems, including intricate projections and optical illusions, drawings of shadows in perspective, and the mirroring of objects. "In the sum total of his work, this book takes its place as one chapter of a vast treatise on the wonders of the world, in which the harmony of sounds and shapes, the mechanics of vision and of hydraulic machines are presented on the same level. Although the author writes in the sober style of a technician, he is deeply aware of the poetry of his subjects."-BaltruÅ¡aitis, Anamorphic Art, p. 37. Caus was born in the Dieppe region, but moved a great deal in Flemish and German circles in which anamorphoses seem to have been particu
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Woodcut printer's device on title. 4 p.l., 114, [6] pp. Small 4to, 18th-cent. vellum over boards (light browning & foxing). Florence: Giunta, 1612. First edition of the first and most famous textbook devoted to glassmaking. "Neri is remembered only for L'arte vetraria (1612), a little book in which many, although by no means all, of the closely guarded secrets of glassmaking were printed for the first time. He recommended that glass be made from rocchetta (a fairly pure sodium sesquicarbonate from the Near East) and tarso, which he described as a kind of marble but which must have been some form of silica. He did not indicate the source of the necessary proportion of lime. The main part of the text deals with the coloring of glass with metallic oxides to give not only clear and uniform colors but also various veined effects. There are chapters on making lead glass of high refractive index and enamel (opaque) glass by the addition of tin oxide."-D.S.B., X, p. 23. Neri (d. ca. 1614), appears to have learned the art of glassmaking at Murano, near Venice, and to have continued his studies of this and other chemical arts in the Low Countries. "The greater part of the book is devoted to the coloration of glass, both to imitate gemstones and for the use of enamellers."-Singer et al, History of Technology, III, p. 217-(& see the detailed discussion of this work on pp. 217-19). This work went through numerous editions and translations; the first edition is rare. Very good copy. Engraved armorial bookplate of the Italian poet Domenico Rosa Morando (1734-18
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1612. Carta geografiaca tratta dal "Tabularum Geographicarum contractarum" di Petrus Bertius, edizione latina del 1616. L'opera contiene 219 carte che illustrano questa nuova versione della geografia del Bertius, per la prima volta pubblicata nel 1600 con le carte di Barent Langenes e Cornelis Claesz. Le carte derivano dal grande Mercator/Hondius atlas, delle quali molte rappresentano una semplice riduzione. Incisione in rame, carta leggermente brunita, per il resto in ottimo stato di conservazione. A superior rival to the pocket Ortelius atlas appeared about 1598, under the imprint of Barent Langenes and Cornelis Claesz. Claesz also published the Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum, edition with texy by Petrus Bertius, in 1600. After the death of Cornelis Claesz in 1609, Jodocus Hondius II became the new publisher of the work, composed by 7 parts in 1, with engraved title - page and 220 full - page engraved maps in text. All the maps were newly engraved and slightly larger in size, because Hondius was not able to acquire the original plates. With the new plates the work was definitely improved and enjoyed a growing demand of the public, which at that time had the choice between the Atlas Minor by Mercator and Bertius' Tabularum Geographicarum. The 219 plates, with the oval world map appearing twice, were produced to illustrate a new version of the geography of Bertius, published in 1616. According to King, their correct attribution is by Hondius, after Mercator and Hondius, taken from Bertius, who was only responsible for revising his text again. Copperplates, in very go
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1612. 4to. 19 [misnumbered: 3], (1) pp. With woodcut printer's device to title page. Modern half calf with marbled covers and giltstamped title. First edition of this Arabic version of the Epistle of St. Paul to Titus. "Edited, with a literal translation, by J. Antonides, from a transcript of an Arabic manuscript at Oxford, supplied to the editor by Matthew Slade (1569-1628?), a friend of Casaubon, elder of the Brownist Church at Amsterdam and rector of the Academy. Contains also the Lord's Prayer in Arabic and Latin" (Darlow/M.). - Ms. ownership "John Williams" (dated 1833) to title page. Slight waterstaining and browning. Untrimmed copy. Darlow/Moule 1639.

[4], 1-186, 189-287pp, [1], Later full calf, raised bands, spine in six panels, title label to second panel, remaining panels with central lozenge shaped tool in gilt, covers with double fillet gilt border. Recently rebacked to style. Minor rubbing to extremities. Text block slightly cropped at head. Internally some minor browning and staining, but generally fairly bright. Lacks A1, which is blank apart from the signature letter 'A' to foot, small flaw to title catching fore-edge, with an ink number '3' to title, the head of G1 has '35 comes after 50' in ink (a legacy of signature G being bound before F - now rectified), the final page is blank (sometimes found with errata). Sir John Davies, "firmly believed that the successful government of Ireland could not be achieved through military conquest alone, but depended instead on laying the legal foundations for a civil society ... From 1606 he was busy with the management of the work deriving from the establishment of the commissions for defective titles and the implementation of arrangements for the surrender and regrant of lands by tenants of the crown. This was a crucial element in his long-standing campaign to entrench the full-scale operation of property law in Ireland as the bulwark of English rule, and was designed specifically to undermine and finally to abolish Gaelic para-legal forms of land tenure and inheritance which were much more fluid, based on kinship and the sept, and the tribal allegiances underpinning them ... Davies was long absorbed in the establishment of the new plantation ... In all he obtained 5500 a
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Paris. Par JeanRicher:. 1612.. Very Good. Hardcover. Book 17cm, [vi],534 foliated pages, engraved title page,bound in contemporary full vellum, some staining to the preliminary (5)leaves, vellum a bit wrinkled, dust worn, very good copy. (cgc) In this, the first volume of the first review issued in France, will be found, folio 291, the narrative of the navigations of the French in Canada before the foundation of Quebec by Champlain, in 1608, and at folio 518, the baptism of the Grand Sagamo de Canada by the Sieur Poutincourt. Lande 629. Sabin 47931. This annual register of events was edited in turn by Jean and Etienne Richer, Pere Joseph, and Theophraste Renaudot. In it is found the first published account of the voyages of Champlain and the establishment of the Jesuits in Canada. A large part of the Mercure is devoted to voyages and travels, e. g. 1608. "Des Colonies que les Anglois ont mene en la Virginie en ceste annee. 269.a.1608, "Voyages faicts en la Nouvelle France ou Canada". 1612, "Les anglois cherchent en vain le chemin de la Chine par le septentrion" Very important publication, containing the following articles relating to the early history of America; Voyages faits en la Nouvelle France ou Canada du sieur des Monts 1604; Voyage du sieur de Pont-grave, 1605;Voyage du sieur de Pointrincourt, 1606; Voyage des sieurs de champdore & Champlain, 1608. .

1612. Copper engraving,original color, mm 340x470; italian text and number 9 on verso. From the 1612 edition. Good condition in very early color, partly oxidated like usual for the italian 1612 edition.A very early map of the Spanish empire in the New World, made up of 3 maps on one sheet, the largest showing central and South America (Peru); the second showing Florida and the southeast; and the third, Guastecan (Huasteca), a northeastern province of Mexico. The map of Florida is important as it is the first regional map of the southeastern section of North America.The map revealed little information on the interior of North America, but the details presented have been definitely linked with known features. The village of Aijx undoubtedly became known to the Spaniards as Ais, and the Mississippi, though distorted, appeared as the R.de S.Spiritu , the name given it by early Spanish explorers. Tascalisa lies on the map as closely as possible to where today's Tuscaloosa, Alabama is. The Chaves map published by Ortelius was, therefore, one of the earliest printed maps of the territory based on actual observations. Burden 57: "(La Florida) is one of the very few maps printed in the sixteenth century that was based upon original Spanish sources. They were very protective of their knowledge of the Americas, a considerable source of their wealth. The author of this map, Geronimo de Chaves, was the Cosmographer Royal to Philip II of Spain". The map of Florida is considered to be the first to show any interior detail of the present day United States, and was set the standard for mapp
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Frankfurt, Germany. Ca. 1612. - Engraving with handcolor, image 13 1/2 x 8 inches. Very good condition. Conservation matted. From Emanuel Sweert's Florilegium, first issued in 1612, with five subsequent editions. "Emanuel Sweert, a Dutch florist, was at one time Praefectus of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II, and it was at his behest that the work was produced. Although it did not contain prices it also served as a catalogue of plants offered for sale by Sweert at the Frankfurt Fair." (de Belder catalogue). The intaglio processes of engraving and etching had only recently been applied to botanical illustration, allowing for a finer, more spontaneous line than the woodcut. Pictured are a number of varieties of the Amaryllis family.

Frankfurt, Germany. Ca. 1612. - Engraving with handcolor, image 13 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches on sheet size 15 x 10 inches. Spot (approximately 1 inch circle) to lower left image, otherwise very good condition. From Emanuel Sweert's Florilegium, first issued in 1612, with five subsequent editions. "Emanuel Sweert, a Dutch florist, was at one time Praefectus of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II, and it was at his behest that the work was produced. Although it did not contain prices it also served as a catalogue of plants offered for sale by Sweert at the Frankfurt Fair." (de Belder catalogue). The intaglio processes of engraving and etching had only recently been applied to botanical illustration, allowing for a finer, more spontaneous line than the woodcut. This is a lovely image of crocus bulbs.